Two Superb Concert Grand Pianos

Zenph Studios maintains two of the finest nine-foot concert grand pianos available. Hyperbole? A professional pianist recently observed, "First of all, thanks a million for letting me rehearse in your amazing recital hall today. When you said earlier that you had the best piano in the country I was skeptical... not any more!!! It really is one of the finest I've played." (Greg McCallum, September 14, 2003)

These two instruments are located in the private recital hall and research facility of Zenph Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina. The room is temperature and humidity controlled year-round. The pianos are kept in superb tuning and regulation.

Steinway Model D
The "Faust Harrison Steinway" was built anew in 2000. It's Steinway's largest concert grand, known as the Model D. The cast-iron plate and the rosewood case were originally manufactured in 1886. The modern refinishing of these took a year; there are about 20 new coats of lacquer on the rosewood finish. All the other components of the instrument - the keys, strings, action, soundboard, pin block, and so on - are new, exceeding the specifications of modern Steinways. The bass strings were hand-wound in Canada; the Renner action was made in Germany. Both this and the Yamaha have been extensively revoiced by Marc Wienert, who heads the piano technology department at the Manhattan School of Music. The showroom for Faust Harrison Pianos, fine piano rebuilders, is on 58th Street in New York City, a block from Carnegie Hall. http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com

Yamaha Disklavier Pro DCFIIISAPRO
This is a traditional concert grand piano that is also full of lasers, solenoids, and computers. It can record and play back a pianist's keystrokes and pedal movements with exceptional precision. In addition, these functions can be fully controlled by computer software. You may have seen regular Disklavier pianos serving as player pianos in shops, hotels, and casinos. The rare "Pro" models employ many times the "number of bits" compared to the regular Disklavier models.

This piano was built new for the first "piano-e-competition," which took place in Minneapolis in June 2002. Its action has recently been regulated and its mechanisms have been calibrated to factory specs by Yamaha's finest US technician, Tom Kaplan. It is running the latest beta version of Disklavier Pro software, direct from the Yamaha factory in Japan. The Product Manager of Yamaha's Piano Division observed in a recent site visit that Zenph Studios was "their most advanced customer." http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/piano/product/oceania/dl/pro/pro.html